Originally Posted by dave81uk:
“It has some nice hardware, its a nicely polished OS, however its really let down in the app department, its even behind symbian I would say. I couldn't even find a decent news app, they are all rubbish made by bedroom developers, in fact alot of apps are like that, very little official.”
For news try Weave, costs £2.49. There's also an unofficial BBC News one and an ITN one.
If you want recommendations for other app categories, let me know.
Here's a few: I like the Kindle app, Shazam and Last.fm are free on WP7 (you have to pay on other platforms AFAIK), I use Beezz for twitter, capital FM for streamed radio, flickr for photos, flixster and IMDB for movies, London Travel for the tube, MusicShark for grooveshark streaming, poynt for restaurants, saynoto0870, silver navigator for satnav, taxiroute GB as a taxi fare calculator, Weave for news.
Yes, the apps are few but they are growing and the store is growing faster than Android did at the same stage in its lifecycle.
As more people buy into the platform there will be more apps and also the release of Mango releases many APIs developers were waiting for to make their apps.